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All hail homemade Nice Cream! A wonderful creation that means we can make a light alternative dessert quickly and easily. Made by blending frozen fruit, it’s refined sugar free, can be made dairy free and takes just minutes to whiz together.
What is Nice Cream, I hear you cry?
It’s a healthy ice cream alternative (made with frozen bananas) that’s growing in popularity, and here I show you how to make it in just a few minutes. It’s honestly so easy!
Simply blitz the ingredients together in a food processor – and that’s it! You can enjoy it straight away or freeze to firm it up a little.
It’s perfect for using up leftover bananas and you can make it with or without a little dairy. It works either way.
This is an ideal dessert for the whole family for those days when you want a little sweet treat but you don’t want anything that’s ultra processed or full of sugar.
Why you’ll love this Banana Nice Cream recipe
⭐️ Natural ingredient healthy dessert
⭐️ Can be made dairy free
⭐️ So easy to make & a delicious treat!
More Nice Cream Flavours
You can customise your flavours in so many ways. Here are my favourite flavours to adapt my original Nice Cream recipe.
🍓 Strawberry: Add in 8 frozen strawberries when blending and top with some crushed up biscuits (you can use fresh strawberries if that’s what you have in).
🥜 Peanut Butter: Add in 3 tbsp of peanut butter and top with some chopped peanuts.
🍫 Chocolate: Add in 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and top with a few chocolate shavings.
Nice Cream Ingredients
- Bananas – You’ll need 3 for this 2-serving recipe. Peel and slice your fresh bananas and freeze them fully first. Or buy frozen bananas.
- Milk – Use just 1 tablespoon of milk to give this a little creaminess. Use dairy free milk if you prefer.
- Vanilla – Go for paste or extract here.
- Salt – Just a small pinch for added flavour.
How to make Nice Cream
1. Freeze your bananas fully in chunks first.
2. Add your frozen bananas, milk, vanilla paste and salt into a food processor and blitz until very smooth.
TO SERVE: Eat as it is or pop in the freezer for 30 minutes–1 hour to firm up.
Storing
Nice Cream will keep in the freezer for up to 2 weeks.
Store it in a container and scoop out to serve, giving a full ice cream effect!
More Banana recipes…
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Banana Split
Sweet Things
Banana Muffins
Sweet Things
Banana Cake {FOOLPROOF Recipe}
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Banoffee Pie
FAQs
Not overwhelmingly. The original recipe tastes more like creamy bananas, but the stronger you make any other added flavours, the less you can taste the banana.
No! Freezing them is what makes them creamy and thick. If you use unfrozen bananas, your Nice Cream will be more like a banana smoothie to drink, rather than eat.
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How to Make Nice Cream
Ingredients
- 3 Bananas, Peeled, sliced and frozen
- 1 tbsp Milk, Cow's or dairy alternative
- 1 tsp Vanilla paste, Or 1/2 tsp extract
- Small pinch of salt
Instructions
- Add your frozen bananas, milk, vanilla paste and salt into a food processor and blitz until very smooth. (You may need to scrape the sides down a few times.)
- Eat as it is or pop in the freezer for 30 minutes-1 hour to firm up a little.
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Notes
- Strawberry: Add in 8 frozen strawberries when blending and top with some crushed up biscuits.
- Peanut Butter: Add in 3 tbsp of peanut butter and top with some chopped peanuts.
- Chocolate: Add in 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and top with a few chocolate shavings.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation. Nutritional values are per portion unless otherwise stated.
This recipe was originally published on 12th July 2014. It was updated on 26th August 2025 with a new recipe, new photographs and an updated method.
This post was originally published on August 26, 2025 and updated later to make improvements.
Oh that looks SO good, with my new found love of iced cofee I must try something similar.
My first date with my husband came around 12 months after I’d first met him and we’d had numerous evenings out with a bigger group of friends first. I recall on the first time we were left to our own devices that we went to a Wetherspoons pub in Wardour Street, Soho. Which in the mid nineties was about as glamorous as recent graduates got!
Oh Sarah that made me laugh, was it the Wetherspoons 2 for £5 meal they used to do?!
Those were the days. It has risen to 2 meals for £6.49 now. Bloody inflation 😉
Great Googly Moogly this looks FAB!
Delighted to have found you through Buzzfeed Sarah – now following and getting lost in your past posts.
Keep up the awesome work <3
It has bananas, nutella and coffee so definitely allowed for breakfast! 😀
I love quick ice cream recipes, am rarely bothered to make custard, wait for it to cool etc any more!
I love how simple this is yet amazing! I cannot wait to give it a shot!
Love the skinny banana ice cream, and now I’m in love with this recipe. Looks sooo delicious!
Holy cow that is impressive! I can’t eat bananas but if I could I’d be at risk of making this EVERY DAY!
That sounds like seriously yummy ice cream Sarah.
Loving this recipe… instant blender ice cream is just pure genius. It changed my world when I discovered you could make ice cream in a matter of minutes. And as it’s fruit based I think it’s perfect breakfast food!!! I’m always freezing chunks of banana that’s just on the turn so I can whizz it up later. I’m going to give your recipe a try as i’m such a coffee and nutella fiend!!!!
Have to admit I giggled hearing your first date story Sarah… I met my husband at a party in a club/bar and I spent most of the evening trying to shake him off!! 14 years later and I still can’t get rid of him 😉
Wow! #thatisall